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Summary Criminology Unit 1: AC 3.1- 3.3 write up model answer Domestic abuse stats - what source? - ANSWER-The Crime survey for England and wales year? - ANSWER-The 12-month period to year ending March 2020 How many of that year, fell victim to DA? - ANSWER-showed that an estimated 2.3 million adults aged 16 to 74 years experienced domestic abuse in the last year - 1.6 million women and 757,000 men How many DA related crimes were recorded? - ANSWER758,941 domestic abuse-related...

reasons for not reporting a crime (9) - Answer- fear, shame, disinterest, loyalty, love, not affected, lack of knowledge, lack of current public concern, culture-bound crime consequences of unreported crime [8] - Answer- ripple effect, cultural, decriminalisation, police prioritisation, unrecorded crime, cultural change, legal change, procedural change media used to represent crime [6] - Answer- newspaper, tv, films, electronic gaming, social media, music, impact ...

Evaluate the view pressure groups enhance democracy - ANS For: - Counter balance the tyranny of the majority e.g. Stonewall and the legalisation of gay marriage - Act as a limit to government power e.g. extinction rebellion, committing to zero carbon emissions by 2025 - Bring expert knowledge to governments attention e.g. CBI Counter arguments: - Leads to tyranny of minority e.g. opposition to HS2 - Undermines parliaments sovereignty e.g. private healthcare companies helping draft health ...

Organised Crime - Answer- criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale. White Collar Crime - Answer- Nonviolent crime committed by individuals or corporations to obtain a personal or business advantage. Moral Crimes - Answer- Crimes against the normal standards of morality in society State Crimes - Answer- Crimes perpetrated by governments Technological Crimes - Answer- Also known as cybercrimes Adam Pearson - Answer- A vi...

WJEC Criminology Unit 1 questions and answers 2023Organised Crime criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale. White Collar Crime Nonviolent crime committed by individuals or corporations to obtain a personal or business advantage. Moral Crimes Crimes against the normal standards of morality in society State Crimes Crimes perpetrated by governments Technological Crimes Also known as cybercrimes Ad...

An example of white-collar crime includes: - Money laundering activities The organisation WHISPER works for the decriminalisation of prostitution and can be categorised as: - Radicalist Feminists From a criminological perspective, Siegel (2004) defines a public order crime as a: - Crime which involves acts that interfere with the operations of society and the ability of people to function efficiently The theoretical explanation of conservation crime employs a combin...

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AC.1.3 Explain the consequences of unreported crime(A+ graded 100% verifiedRipple effect - Describes how the impact of crime can spread be on the immediate affect him throughout his or her family friends and community Cultural consequences - Make criminal actions in one country illegal or legal and not another Decriminalisation - Something stops being illegal and becomes illegal. Laws are frequently altered cause they cannot be imposed or enforced Police prioritisation - Police priori...

When was the advert released? 1967 When was the equal pay act was introduced? 1970 When was homosexuality was decriminalized? 1967 When was the contraceptive pill introduced? 1960 What was the advert trying to reinforce with the representation of heterosexuality? Trying to reinforce traditional stereotypes and traditions at the time in order to calm those individuals who did not like the drastic changes that were occurring - such as the decriminalisation of homos...

Define ripple effect - describes how the impact of a crime can spread beyond just the victim through family, friends or even the community Define the dark figure of crime - the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime describe 'cultural change' regarding consequences of unreported crime - -may be the new culture for the crime to be committed within our own communities describe 'cultural' regarding consequences of unreported crime - -where actions are criminal in one country but no...